Articles tagged ‘live music’
Pinkpop Festival - Netherlands’ largest outdoor music festival
By Roger | May 21st, 2008 |
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The Netherlands holds its largest and oldest outdoor music festival of the year in late spring, and even though it’s not terribly close to Amsterdam itself, it’s fairly easy to reach and quite popular with both Amsterdammers and tourists to the capital. The event has been held annually since 1970, and until 2008 it had [...]
Paradiso Amsterdam
By Roger | April 21st, 2008 | Add a Comment »
The Paradiso club is one of two famous mid-size concert venues in Amsterdam, along with the equally nice Melkweg a few blocks away. The club was converted from a church and opened in this form in 1968, but you can clearly see its church origins on both the inside and outside. The main hall still [...]
Concerts in Amsterdam
By Roger | April 18th, 2008 | Add a Comment »
When you are traveling it can be really fun to go to a concert from one of your favorite bands that happens to be in town on one of the same nights you are. Amsterdam has surprisingly few venues for major touring bands to play, but the good news is that the major ones are [...]
Melkweg Club
By Roger | April 9th, 2008 | Add a Comment »
Probably the most famous club/entertainment complex in this part of Europe, the Melkweg lives up to the hype for most visitors and can be an entertaining place to go even when you don’t recognize any of the names on the bill. It’s actually 5 separate venues in one complex, and sometimes there is a separate [...]
Melkweg Needs a Bailout
By Roger | September 17th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
The Melkweg (the Milky Way), the legendary Amsterdam concert and entertainment venue, is in trouble, and the city of Amsterdam is stepping in to try to save it. The huge Leidseplein venue underwent a major renovation earlier this year without having the financing completely lined up, and a July examination revealed that the entertainment complex [...]
